Artist for hire Aim Ren Beland

Specialties (i.e inker, penciler, computer colorer, painter): Very DIY. Jack of all trades with a background in Illustration.

Style / Genre: Auto-bio, political. I enjoy making work that brings the audience to a place of empathy for the subject, or that can communicate a discourse with a new lens. My work tends to focus on contrasts or juxtapositions of social expectations.

Current projects: I’m currently involved in a lot of organizing as one of the coordinators for CAKE.

What was your first project that made you feel like a real artist and how did you get it? I was to be asked to apart of “F*cking Forty“. I had only recently moved to Chicago after school, and a large number of Chicago comics folx were involved in the project. It was my first time making a comic from someone else’s script, first time having a critique outside of Art School, and I really appreciate the community that formed around the project.

What is your primary inspiration when creating art? Finding new and creative ways to best communicate a concept.